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theories of great importance connected with astronomy have 
been based thereon. It is hoped that some attention may 
now be directed to this subject, and the mere sketch which is 
here given may lead to some discussion and inquiries, which 
will eventually tend to the greater evolvement of truth and 
science, and discourage gratuitous assumptions or unbased 
hypotheses. 
Mr. Denny read the concluding Paper — 
ON A VERY REMARKABLE MUMMY LN THE MUSEUM OF THE 
LEEDS PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY. COMMU- 
NICATED BY PROFESSOR G. SEYFFARTH, PH. D., D.D., 
PROFESSOR IN THE CONCORDIA COLLEGE, ST. LOUIS, U.S.* 
The mummy-coffin, preserved for more than 37 years, in 
the Museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 
ranks, as I have lately demonstrated, with the most im- 
portant monuments of Egyptian antiquity. For this coffin, 
with its paintings and hieroglyphic inscriptions, in a high 
state of preservation, now 3,520 years old, incloses the lifeless 
remains of an Egyptian minister, born in the autumn of the 
year 1722 B.C., only 144 years subsequent to the exodus of 
the Israelites ; it refers to the age of the greatest kings of 
* The mummy which forms the subject of this Paper was procured from 
Gournou, the burial place of Thebes, by Passalacqua, a native of Trieste, 
and transmitted to Loudon for sale, where it was purchased by the late 
John Blayds, Esq., and by him munificently presented to the Museum of the 
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, in 1824. An account of this 
mummy was published in 1828, by Mr. Osburn, M.K.S.L., then Honorary 
Secretary of the Society, a copy of which, presented to the Library of 
the American Philosophical Society, at Philadelphia, having been seen for 
the first time about two years since, by Professor Seyffarth, he read a 
lengthened Memoir on the same mummy, before the Academy of Science 
of St. Louis, which was printed in the Transactions of that body in 1860. 
I therefore wrote to the learned Professor, requesting an abridged Paper on 
the same subject, to read before this Society, which he most willingly 
complied with, and transmitted to me the above communication. — H. D. 
